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Ben is typical of many students living on a university campus in regional Austalia. Between lectures on teaching, and indulging at the bar, he logs his pc onto the uni network, opens his 10gb mp3 archive to fellow students, and looks around for what else is on offer. "Ben" (not his real name) is no campus kingpin. He's like millions of students around the world who are oblivious to the fact that investigators want to put people like him in jail for music piracy. At the very least, they want to slap fines on him that make a HECS bill look likepocket money..........
Well if you couldn't afford your school fees, you wouldn't attend would you. It's a user pays system that is there for good reason, like the piracy laws that you all agree to break, it provides security for the protection of the revenue that the artists and copyright owners are entitled.
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To ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association), evolving technology such as p2p- and associated financial beneficiaries such as ISP's and content hosts- are an example of how the copyright infringement process is morphing to avoid law enforcement, rather than adapting to legitimate business models. "Post-Napster", p2p clients sprung up with technical and operational stategies capitalising on Napster's strength of community sharing but minimising their weaknesses, such as having a central server. What evolved was the physical and technical infrastructure of a p2p company that beats various legal propositions of copyright owners by being geographically dispersed. " Now p2p companies are consistently striving to avoid being tied to one jurisdiction, so they can quickly set up in a new territory if they are pursued. They have decentralised nodes and bogus shelf companies outside jurisdictions where copyright law treaties exist. "It's companies making money from someone else's work, and that's wrong."
